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Pinter's 'The Lover' shines with student production

By Liz Ellison | November 20, 2006

Student productions are one of Dartmouth theater's best-kept secrets. Unfortunately, these excellent plays are all too often overshadowed by the (also excellent) mainstage productions, with which they tend to run concurrently.

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Fall Mainstage 'Far Away' puts on a satisfyingly scary show

By Liz Ellison | November 16, 2006

It certainly is not easy to pull off a really scary play, the kind of unsettling performance that stays with you long after you leave the theater.

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Interweaving plotlines fail to keep 'Babel' together

By Allison Ruderman | November 15, 2006

In an age when globalization and mass media have the power to connect us to even the most remote corners of the globe, the story of the Tower of Babel seems a fitting inspiration for cinematic recreation.

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Frisell and Unspeakable Orchestra bring eloquent jazz to the HOP

By Caitlin Kelly | November 15, 2006

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Perhaps due to the midterm madness on campus, there was a noticeable lack of undergraduates in the audience when Bill Frisell and his Unspeakable Orchestra, with special guests Ron Miles and Greg Tardy, took the stage in Spaulding Auditorium last night.

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Spheris Gallery hosts acclaimed Vermont artist's works

By Lucy Randall | November 14, 2006

On Saturday night, prospective buyers, interested artists and fans of local artist Eric Aho gathered in Hanover's Spheris Gallery to hear an informal talk about the artist's work.

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'The Real Animal House' relies on perverse shock tactics

By Matt Ritger | November 13, 2006

Welcome to the world of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1960, where brains scraped from the windshield of a car wreck are a perfect ingredient for the house brew, where the greatest achievement in recent memory was a brother who could shake quarters out of his foreskin, and where urination, defecation and masturbation make up the Holy Trinity. Chris Miller '63 brings this "awesomely depraved" world to light in his new memoir, "The Real Animal House." Miller is one of the screenwriters of the titular movie that made the Dartmouth fraternity scene so notorious.

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Creepy setting lends an eerie intimacy to DTC's 'No Exit'

By Hilary Becker | November 13, 2006

For all those who attended one of the Displaced Theater Company's performances of Jean Paul Sartre's "No Exit" this weekend, there was, quite literally, no exit.

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'Antoinette' shows life inside gilded cage

By Leslie Adkins | November 9, 2006

By Leslie Adkins The Dartmouth Staff Few royals were as infamously apathetic about the welfare of their countries as Marie Antoinette.

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Filligar shows plenty of talent and thought on 'Succession'

By Allison Ruderman | November 9, 2006

Alt-rock band Filligar has undertaken a dicey gamble by entering an already overcrowded musical niche.

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Launch party marks another milestone for '04's jewelry line

By Leslie Adkins | November 8, 2006

Courtesy of Lulu Frost In the land of popped-collar Lacoste polos, legging ensembles and Uggs galore, creativity in fashion often leaves something to be desired.

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Fate of Hovey murals remains a subject of controversy

By Hilary Becker | November 8, 2006

Editor's Note: This article is the second of a series examining hidden artworks at Dartmouth. Resting in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall are a series of images that have been called deeply offensive, racist and insulting, and have, over the years, continued to spark debate. The fate of the controversial Hovey murals is particularly interesting to contemplate in light of the College's recent uncovering of the Tiffany and Royal Bavarian stained glass windows in Rollins Chapel, which had been concealed since 1972 as a means of making the space less denominational. Painted in 1937-38 by American illustrator Walter Beach Humphrey '14, famous for his covers of "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Collier's," the Hovey murals were a reaction to the famous Orozco Frescoes in Baker Library. In a 1938 issue of the Dartmouth Alumni magazine, Humphrey wrote, "If my allusions to the celebrated murals in Baker Library seem ill chosen to anyone ... I feel it excusable to use them as a foil for my own ideas.

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New creative writing prof. discusses writing, publishing Tudish discusses fiction writing and the publishing world

By Leanne Mirandilla | November 7, 2006

Catherine Tudish came to Dartmouth along with the Class of 2010 this September as the newest faculty member in the creative writing department.

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Dartmouth radio locally popular but has few student listeners

By Joe Debonis | November 7, 2006

Dartmouth Broadcasting is a business. It's not just a business serving your suitemates, or that girl in your psychology class, or even just the beloved denizens of Hanover; Dartmouth Broadcasting is a business (with a capital B) serving 30- to 40,000 listeners in the Upper Valley. "It's a business.

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The Roots draw a solid crowd in Leede Arena Sunday night

By Dylan Hume | November 6, 2006

The Roots, the innovative Philadelphia-based hip-hop group known for their intelligent grooves and lyrics, played in Leede Arena last night as the Programming Board's major concert of the Fall term.

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Casting concerns force theater dept. to change Mainstage production

By Liz Ellison | November 2, 2006

Those who stopped keeping tabs on this term's Mainstage play back in September might have noticed that "The Negro of Peter the Great" is no longer on the schedule. "Negro," originally slated to be produced this fall by the theater department, has been replaced with acclaimed British playwright Caryl Churchill's "Far Away," a futuristic tale "about what will happen in a world in which violence spins out of control," according to director Peter Hackett '75. The play was switched when auditions failed to yield a single candidate for the title role of "The Negro," despite campus-wide outreach to drum up interest. "Although we had a significant turnout by minority students, we did not have an African-American actor," Hackett said.

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Roots to bring unique hip-hop style to Leede on Sunday

By Caitlin Kelly | November 2, 2006

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Studio art majors collaborate on new display at the Hop

By Matt Ritger | November 1, 2006

If you've passed the Hopkins Center in the past few days, then you've probably seen the unsettling figure and natural cyclone caught inside the rotunda at the main entrance.

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Director Eastwood follows war film formula with 'Flags'

By A.J. Fox | November 1, 2006

Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes What exactly is "Flags of Our Fathers"? I asked myself this question on the way into the theatre and was disappointed to find that, 132 minutes later, I was no closer to an answer.

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Chamber Singers bring village music to Rollins

By Joseph Debonis | October 31, 2006

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Imagine traveling from Spain and France to Norway, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Peru, South Africa and beyond -- all in one night. With the help of some gifted composers and a dedicated conductor, the Dartmouth Chamber Singers will be doing just that.

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Hood celebrates 150th anniversary of Assyrian reliefs

By Lucy Randall | October 30, 2006

Courtesy of the Hood Museum This upcoming weekend, the Hood Museum will showcase its prized collection of Assyrian reliefs in the symposium entitled "From Discovery to Dartmouth: The Assyrian Reliefs at the Hood Museum of Art, 1856-2006" at the Loew Auditorium. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of their installation in Hanover, the reliefs will be the focus of this collaborative symposium, which, thanks to the sponsorship of the Fanny and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities, will be free and open to the public.

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